Individual Details

St. James Parish Vestry Book, 1744-1850, by William Lindsay Hopkins, self-published, 1987
5 Oct 1750. Vestry agrees to Imploy the Rev. William Douglass for one year.

Kept "The Douglas Register". Pastor of St. James Northam, Goochland.

His personal family entries, states they came to Virginia on 6 Oct 1750. His parents were William Douglas and Grishild McKeand.

Louisa DB D 1/2
p.346   25 Mar1779   Sandie/Landie Richardson and Sarah his wife to the Revd. Wm Douglas of Goochland Co.  for 350#'s.  377 acres in Louisa on Northanna River & Goldmine Creek.  Bounded poplar on Northana River, on Douglas's former line; down the river to the mouth of Goldmine Creek, up the Creek, a little below the Mill, crossing the Mill Pond, Lipscombs corner, his line; Wm. Douglas's former plantation.  Signed:  Landie Richardson, Sarah Richardson.  Wit:  John Hawkins, Jos. Hawkins, Wm. Thurston, Robt Thomson

Parson Douglas became a devotee of George Whitefield, a close friend and fellow evangelist of John Wesley. His activities and entusiasiam for Methodism, hymn singing, and testifying, was frowned upon by the Church of England.

Birth	3 Aug 1708	Penningham Parish, Galloway, Scotland
Marriage	27 Nov 1735	Scotland - Nicholas Hunter
Death	Feb 1798	Louisa County, Virginia

Spouse	Nicholas Hunter (1715 - 1781)
Child	Margaret "Peggie" Douglas (1737 - 1812)